Aavikon Kone ja Moottori: ‘Rakkaudella sinulle’ (“With love to you”, 1980)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Golden-Greats-Of-IKBAL/release/2592801
Zodiac: ‘Zodiac’ (1980)
In the late 1970s in the students’ club of the State Conservatory of Latvia (then still a part of USSR) Janis Lusens launched a rock-group called Zodiac (Zodiak, Russian: Зодиа́к, Latvian: Zodiaks), almost exclusively concentrating upon studio work. Disco Alliance was their first record in 1980 and turned out to be a block-buster on the Soviet stage. The band was extremely popular in the USSR and has been credited by critics as the Soviet answer to the French band Space who were popular at the time. (Source: YouTube, Discogs)
Video:
Scenes from the Russian sci-fi film Cherez ternii k zvyozdam / Через тернии к звёздам (“Humanoid Woman, To The Stars By Hard Ways” a.k.a. Per Aspera, Ad Astra a.k.a. Through The Thorns To The Stars a.k.a. Humanoid Woman). USSR 1981. By director Richard Viktorov.
Conrad Schnitzler: ‘Auf dem schwarzen Kanal’ (1980)
http://www.discogs.com/Conrad-Schnitzler-Auf-Dem-Schwarzen-Kanal/release/20108
Matti & Pirjo Bergström: ‘Virkamiehet’ (“Bureaucrats”, 1980)
Originally released on the album The Forgotten Horizon (Kompass KOLP 29, 1980): music from choreograph Jorma Uotinen’s dance production of the same name.
Matti Bergström (1938 - 1994) was a Finnish composer, musician and arranger. Together with his wife Pirjo Bergström (1939 - 2011) — who was also a musician, composer, arranger, singer and actress — they collaborated on their own music and also on the albums of other Finnish artists, such as Cumulus, Hector, Paula Koivuniemi and Tuulikki Eloranta; furthermore, running their own music studio. From the mid-1970s onwards they worked also on music for ballets, collaborating among all with choreographer Jorma Uotinen. After Matti Bergström’s death in 1994 Pirjo Bergström continued working both as a composer and performer. She had singing roles for the musicals Cats and Sound of Music, and also on the popular TV comedy Velipuolikuu (1983 - 1984). She died after a stroke on 15 May 2011.
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Bergstr%C3%B6m
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Stressi
http://www.phinnweb.org/early/synth/stressi/
http://www.finnmusic.net/main.php?67505e5948077550511253416e13
The Slits: ‘In The Beginning There Was Rhythm’ (1980)
Ari Up of The Slits has passed away at the age of 48. R.I.P.
http://www.spinner.com/2010/10/20/slits-ari-up-dead-at-48/
http://www.factmag.com/2010/10/21/r-i-p-slits-frontwoman-ari-up/
Prince: ‘Dirty Mind’ (1980)
